Everybody's a filmmaker today.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.